When The Hobo tries to get justice for a fractured skull, the Hobart police refuse to arrest the perpetrator. Instead they try to entrap the innocent victim, giving him no choice but to sleep in the woods. In order to stay sober, he spars in hard gyms with great Australian fighters. Even when fit and sober, he realizes without the puppet master, he’ll never get to fight in Australia ever again.

My father grew up in the poverty of Dust Bowl Kansas during the Great Depression. Sure, I Can Do That is a collection of stories that he told about his life on the farm and his adventures riding the rails as a teenage hobo. These are true stories of an American life, told with humor and honesty. They paint a colorful portrait of a man who overcomes the limitations of his circumstances.

Young Corey James’ life is shattered when a car crash takes the life of her parents. She is forced to live with relatives she has never seen before. Verbally and physically abused by her aunt Corey runs away disguised as a boy. Helped by an old hobo, she begins a journey that takes her on a series of adventures, both perilous and heartwarming. As they ride the rails together, Andy Curruthers tea

Almost Halloween! Thirteen short stories to get you in the mood. Each one is easily consumable for a lunchtime read. Most of these stories are lightly sautéed in science fiction. Some are salted with dark humor. All of them are boiled over a creepy flame. Goosebumps high, blood splatter minimum.

Things during the Great Depression of the 1930s were much different than they are today. Men, soon known to everyone as hobos, threw themselves at the mercy of the residents of the towns and villages they traveled through looking for increasingly scarce work. These short stories tell their story through the eyes of one of the rural people who fed them.